NARCOTICS. 



N. O. 161. LABIATE. Micromeria Thea-sinensis, used in France. 

 Monarda didyma, and M. purpurea, " Oswego Tea." Ocymum 

 album, used in India. Saloia oflicinalis, " Sage Tea." 



. N. O. 162. VERBENACE.E. Lantana pseudo-Thea, " Capitao da 

 Matto of Brazil." Stachytarpheta jamaicensis, used in Austria, 

 under the name of " Brazilian Tea." 



N. O. 171. CHENOPODIACEJB. Chenopodium ambrosioides, used in 

 Mexico and Columbia. 



N. O. 179. ANTHEROSPERMACE^E. Antherosperma moschata, 

 used in Australia. 



N. O. 195. EUPHORBIACEJE. Croton Eleuteria, and perhaps also 

 Croton Cascarilla, are used in Hayti. 



N. O. 230. ORCHTDACEJE. Angrcecum fragrans, Faham of Mauri- 

 tius and Bourbon. 



N. 0. 53. VITACE^E. VINEWORTS. 

 Vitis vinifera. W. Common Grape. 



Linn. Sytt. Pentandria Monogynia. 



The fermented juice of the grape, Wine. 



Vernacular. Draksha, Sans. Beng. Drakhyaluta, Beng. Dahh, 

 Ungoor, Hind. Kodrimoondne, Tarn. Drachtr, Tel. Muddrap, 

 Oowus, Wcp.l-midi, Cey. Kerm (tlie bine), Inub (the grape), 

 Umaseen (must), Zebeeb, Meweez (raisins), Arab. Unyoor, Pers. 

 Booaangoor, Malaya. Wine, Khumr, Arab. 



Habitat. Persia. Cultivated throughout the old world from India 

 to the 51 north. 



Remarks. See " Fruits and Vegetables." Grape juice, or must in the 

 air, at a temperature between 60 and 80 Fahr., ferments,.and this ferrnety, 

 drawn off its sediment, racked, sulphured, taid fined, is wine. Persia is 

 undoubtedly the native country of the Vine, and on the ground of the story 

 of Noah, we may conclude that wine was first made in the neighbourhood 

 of Armenia. The Persian tradition is, that wine was discovered by 

 the renowned Jamshid. " He was immoderately fond of grapes, and de- 

 sired to preserve some, which were placed in a large vessel and lodged in a 

 vaujt for future use. When the vessel was opened, the grapes had 

 fermented ; their juice in tins state was so acid, that the king believed it 

 must be poisonous. He had some vessels filled with it, and poison 

 written upon each, these were planed in his room." Here, however, we 

 must confess Jamshid's share in the discovery ends ; for, again, it was a 

 woman who first tasted the " forbidden fruit." " It happened that one 

 of his favourite ladies was affected with nervous headaches : the pain 

 distracted her so that she desired death ; observing a vessel with poison 

 written on it, she took it and swallowed its contents. The wine, for such 

 it had become, overpowered the lady, who fell down into a sound sleep 

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